Mainly because I don't live in the US and come to adoption through the door marked "International" ... but partially because I've been lazier than I should have been ... I only recently came around to giving a lot of thought to the adoptee rights movement that focuses on unsealing adoption records for adoptees giving them access to their original birth certificates, and therefore their original identity. Over the years I heard plenty about the fight for open records state-by-state, but it always seemed a no-brainer to me ... of course adult adoptees should have the option of knowing the names of the people who combined DNA and came up with them, and whatever circumstances an official document might suggest or lead them to